Familiar Player vs AsMusicPlayer

Familiar is a self-hosted music player that understands the sound of your music, not just its metadata. Ask for "something that sounds like rain on a window" and it actually works. Point Familiar at your own home server (macOS Docker, Linux, Synology, OpenMediaVault — whatever you run). Nothing leaves your network. No cloud accounts, no subscriptions, no tracking. • AI chat and playlist creation — Powered by the Claude API using your own key. Describe a mood, a setting, a vibe; Familiar pulls from your library. • Semantic audio search — CLAP embeddings let you match by how music sounds, not just artist or genre. • Deep feature analysis — BPM, key, energy, brightness, danceability, valence, instrumentalness, and more, extracted on your server. • Ambient mode — continuous drone plus ghostly snippets from your library, tuned to the current key. • Community analysis cache — opt in to share anonymized audio fingerprints so others skip hours of analysis, and benefit from theirs. • Smart playlists — rules-based playlists that update automatically as your library changes. • Offline playback, lock-screen controls, synced lyrics (LRCLIB), Last.fm scrobbling. • Works with FLAC, ALAC, MP3, AAC, Ogg, Opus. Familiar is open-source (MIT) and requires you to run your own backend. Setup guides for Docker, macOS, and common NAS platforms are on GitHub.

AsMusic is a clean, modern player for Navidrome and Subsonic servers. Stream your personal libraries anywhere, then download albums, playlists, and favorites for offline listening. Built for simplicity, AsMusic helps you enjoy your collection without clutter. AsMusic requires a self-hosted Navidrome or Subsonic server to function. This app does not provide any music streaming or hosting service. --- Features: - Multi-servers multi-accounts multi-libraries mixed playback - Offline downloads for albums, playlists, and favorites - Create and manage playlist in-app - Star, favorite, and like tracks - Sleep timer WIP: - CarPlay support --- AsMusic is currently optimized around a focused listening experience, with more customization planned in future updates. AsMusic is open source and licensed under MIT. Source code: https://github.com/gentlespoon/asmusic Feedback and issues: https://github.com/gentlespoon/asmusic/issues